Patrick Gaspard–President Obama–ACORN–SEIU–Connections
SEIU Union
ACORN In A Nutshell
Matthew Vadum Talks About ACORN’s Founder Wade Rathke on the Glenn Beck Program, June 25, 2009
OBAMA CAUGHT SAYING ACORN AND FRIENDS WILL SHAPE HIS PRESIDENTIAL AGENDA
Rep. Mike Pence Talks About My Article on ACORN Insider Patrick Gaspard on Hannity Sept. 28, 2009
Matthew Vadum Talks to Laura Ingraham about ACORN Man in White House Patrick Gaspard, Sept. 29, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N-UKz25TNw

Background Articles and Videos
ACORN’s Man in the White House
Matthew Vadum
“…Because Gaspard’s employment with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is acknowledged by no less an authority than ACORN founder Wade Rathke himself. Rathke writes at his blog:
Tell me that 1199′s former political director, Patrick Gaspard (who was ACORN New York’s political director before that) didn’t reach out from the White House and help make that happen, and I’ll tell you to take some remedial classes in “politics 101.”
The “before that” time period Rathke is referring to is 2003 when Gaspard was executive vice president for political and legislative affairs for 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East. According to publicly available disclosure documents, Gaspard registered as a federal lobbyist for SEIU on Oct. 22, 2007. The registration and subsequent disclosures indicate he lobbied Congress on SCHIP, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. …”
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/09/28/acorns-man-in-the-white-house
Patrick Gaspard, ACORN, and Obama
By Stanley Kurtz
“…With the revelation that White House Director of Political Affairs, Patrick Gaspard, has close ties to Bertha Lewis and to ACORN, Matthew Vadum and Erick Erickson appear to be onto something significant. While the Gaspard matter needs further investigation before we form any hard conclusions, it certainly seems to confirm that President Obama’s ties to a whole series of ACORN-controlled organizations are neither minor nor by any means long-past. In fact, making use of what Erickson and Vadum have discovered about Gaspard, we can trace these links still further.
There’s been a good deal of attention to ACORN of late, and deservedly so. Yet for all the fuss, what is arguably the most important Obama-ACORN tie of all has gotten short shrift. During the 2008 election, Obama’s close links to the far-left New Party were revealed and explored (although not by the mainstream press). Yet many seem to have forgotten that the New Party, particularly in Chicago, was dominated by ACORN (and by an ACORN-controlled SEIU union local). During the campaign, I detailed Obama’s New Party ties in two pieces, “Something New Here,” and “Life of the New Party.” Important evidence of Obama’s pursuit of the New Party endorsement can also be found in the September-October 1995 issue of “New Ground,” newsletter of the Chicago chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. Obama’s New Party ties matter because they show that his links to ACORN went far beyond shared on-the-ground organizing, legal representation, training, or even funding (although all of those ties existed and were important). By running for office with the New Party, Obama was effectively indicating that he shared ACORN’s radical political goals. …”
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NjljYzYyMDhlY2Y4MTRhZTI4NGQ5OGVlMGE5YmIzYTI=
Obama’s Top Aide Gaspard Tied to ACORN
By David A. Patten
“…Patrick Gaspard, considered one of the most powerful figures in the Obama White House, is a “longtime ACORN operative” and former union official, according to a report posted Monday on the American Spectator’s online blog.
Gaspard’s name recently surfaced as the official President Obama dispatched to urge beleaguered New York Gov. David Paterson not to run for another term. Paterson insists he’ll continue to run for governor even without Obama’s support.Gaspard has extensive ties to organized labor and community-organizing groups. One measure of his influence in the White House: He holds the same “political affairs director” title that belonged to Karl Rove during the Bush administration.The Spectator’s Matthew Vadum, a senior editor at the Capital Research Center think tank, reported that Gaspard was the New York political director for top ACORN official Bertha Lewis before 2003. Lewis is the CEO and “chief organizer” for ACORN, which is the subject of more than a dozen investigations for vote-registration fraud nationwide. …”
“http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/obama_acorn_gaspard/2009/09/28/265678.html
Obama File 88 Parallel Lives? Obama’s “Go To” Man, Patrick Gaspard and New York Socialism
“…He’s a low key, behind-the-scenes, no-fingerprints kind of guy. I need something, I call Patrick. And if he calls, it’s a big deal. He’s close to the president.”
Considerable attention has been focused on Gaspard’s ties to the radical community group ACORN.
This post looks at Gaspard’s ties to the groups behind ACORN-the groups that helped President Obama during his Chicago days-Democratic Socialists of America and the Communist Party offshoot Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. …”
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-file-88-parallel-lives-obamas-man.html
“…Patrick Gaspard is the Director of the Office of Political Affairs for the Obama administration. Gaspard’s prior position was on the advisory board for President Barack Obama’s transition team[1]. During the presidential campaign, Gaspard was Obama’s National Political Director.
Prior to working on Obama’s campaign team, Gaspard was the executive vice president for politics and legislation for the 300,000 member 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East labor union,[2] the largest local union in America. He helped coordinate political activity and government relations on behalf of 300,000 members. In 2006, Gaspard served as the acting political director for SEIU International during the national union’s successful effort to help Democrats capture majorities in the House and Senate. In 2004, Gaspard was the National Field Director for America Coming Together. Gaspard worked for Governor Howard Dean’s presidential campaign, the 1988 Jesse Jackson presidential bid and numerous congressional candidates and campaigns. In 1989, he worked on the successful and historic David Dinkins mayoral campaign.[3]. Gaspard is a former community organizer around school reform issues. …”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Gaspard

Going Nuts
ACORN: Alien Children Offered Regularly Nationwide
ACORN: Authorities Caught One Registering “Napoleon”
ACORN: Assembly of the Complacent: Organized, Registered & Non-productive!
ACORN: Association of Criminals Obama Represented in the Nineties
ACORN: Assorted Crazies, Oddballs, Reprobates, and Nincompoops
ACORN: “Audacity” and “Change” that Obama Represents Nationally
ACORN: A Crooked, Offensive, Repulsive Nut
ACORN: Agitators, Cheats, Offenders, and Repugnant Nonentities
ACORN: Association of Crooks O’Keefe Revealed in a Nanosecond
ACORN: Advising Criminals, Organizing Radical Nutjobs
ACORN: Assisting Call-girls, Obama, Reid & Nancy
ACORN: Advancing Collectivism, Obamamania, Reparations Now!
ACORN: After Clinton, Obama Retards a Nation
ACORN: Alike Carter, Obama is Regretful and Negative
ACORN: America, Could Obama Resign Now??
ACORN: Against Conservatives, Order, Republicans, and the Nation
ACORN: American Cash Outflows to Rathke’s “Nonprofits”
ACORN: Apparently “Community Organizing” Really is Nefarious
ACORN: Awarding Capital to Objectionable Rent-seeking Noncontributors
ACORN: Apathetic, Crybaby, Odiferous, Rejected Nothings
ACORN: Andrew Clearly Outplayed the Resentful NYT
ACORN: Anyone Can Observe that this is Rank Nonsense
ACORN: Ascent by Creepy Operation / Resented in the Nation
ACORN: Almost as Commendable as an Outflow of Rectal Necrosis
ACORN: Associated Congressmen Ought to be Replaced in November 2010
ACORN: Always Cheating, Often Ruining Neighborhoods
ACORN: Addled Crack-heads and Obnoxious Race-baiting Neurotics
ACORN: Appalling Cesspool; Obscene Revolting Nightmare
ACORN: A Clan of Odious, Ridiculed Nitwits
ACORN: Another Corrupt Obama Run Network
Others? Please suggest!
JupiterSuite
October 1, 2009
Most likely you will not approve this comment, but it does not hurt to try… Open up your mind and see the big picture…
I Work For ACORN – http://tdaait.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/i-work-for-acorn/
Cara
October 2, 2009
Actually, Wade Rathke made a mistake when he said Gaspard worked for ACORN. Gaspard was not an ACORN staffer.
Rathke retracted the mistake, and you ought to read the retraction because what he has to say about McCarthyite liars like you would shame anyone who has a shred of common decency in them.
The funny thing is that Glenn Beck, serial liar and delusional ADDD dry drunk, is putting $18 million a year in the bank making this stuff up and you right wing fools can’t tell who’s telling the truth.
Oh, and by the way, did Glenn tell you that he’s a Mormon, a member of a secretive polytheistic cult that believes that it has living prophets on earth right now? A group that lets everyone believe that it is “Christian” but only uses the Bible at Christmas and Easter?
Google for Cleon Skousen if you want to know the truth about Glenn Beck. That is, if you’re not afraid to know it.
-Wexler
WWWexler
October 19, 2009